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Staff Software Engineer, Inference Infrastructure

Cohere · San Francisco · New York · Toronto · Montreal

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Frontier labremotestaff$190k–$325k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build next-gen AI platform serving frontier LLMs via easy APIs.
  • Deploy optimized NLP models for low-latency, high-throughput serving.
  • Create customized model deployments meeting enterprise customer needs.

What they offer

  • Weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent
  • Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget for mental health
  • RRSP matching, 401K, Pension Scheme
  • 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months, for either parent
  • Annual enrichment benefits for arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time and workspace
  • Education & learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching
  • 6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days)
  • Budget for traveling to other offices if you are remote, plus an annual company offsite
  • $500 home office stipend
  • Daily lunch program, snacks, and community events for those in the office
  • Co-working benefit for those not near an office

Ideal candidate

Infrastructure engineer with large-scale production experience who is energized by high-performance ML systems, collaboration, and tackling evolving complex challenges with grit.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of engineering experience running production infrastructure at a large scale
  • Experience designing large, highly available distributed systems with Kubernetes, and GPU workloads on those clusters
  • Experience with Kubernetes dev and production coding and support
  • Experience with GCP, Azure, AWS, OCI, multi-cloud on-prem / hybrid serving
  • Experience in designing, deploying, supporting, and troubleshooting in complex Linux-based computing environments
  • Experience in compute/storage/network resource and cost management
  • Excellent collaboration and troubleshooting skills to build mission-critical systems, and ensure smooth operations and efficient teamwork
  • The grit and adaptability to solve complex technical challenges that evolve day to day
  • Familiarity with computational characteristics of accelerators (GPUs, TPUs, and/or custom accelerators), especially how they influence latency and throughput of inference
  • Strong understanding or working experience with distributed systems
  • Experience in Golang, C++ or other languages designed for high-performance scalable servers
remote policy
remote-friendly

Lab profile

About Cohere

Security-first enterprise AI company building frontier foundation models for business applications.

What they build

  • Command foundation models
  • Embed models
  • Rerank models

Known for

  • Security-first enterprise AI
  • Frontier model training and deployment
  • Business-focused end-to-end products

Key facts

  • Founded in 2019
  • Headquartered in Toronto, Canada
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